Speakers at the 9th Annual Forum of the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) stressed on the fact that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) petrochemicals sector has to leverage opportunities in order to overcome challenges ...
Rémy Cointreau Group achieved consolidated sales of €471.8m for the first six months to 30 September 2014. The trend for the period (an organic(**)decline of 5.6%) thus showed some improvement compared with the 2013/14 fiscal ...
Tags: Liqueurs, Spirits, Agriculture
British rigid plastic packaging supplier RPC Group will be acquiring Iceland-based plastic products maker Promens Group for €386m (£306.73m). Promens specialises in manufacturing rigid plastic packaging products and rigid ...
Representatives of the oxo-biodegradable industry have expressed happiness over European Council of Member States' decision to reject the ban on the material across the continent. The Oxo-Biodegradable Plastics Association (OPA) also ...
Tags: biodegradable plastics, lightweight plastic, Agriculture
Mercedes-Benz has launched the updated version of B-Class Sports Tourer. "For the best of what's coming up" - so says the advertising slogan for the new B-Class. The market launch of the new model will shortly no longer be one of the ...
Tags: B-Class Sports Tourer, Auto
Worldwide Grow Lights for Agriculture markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the food supply for the world starts to adopt automated process. Grow lights have become more sophisticated and less expensive to run as solar and ...
Tags: LED Grow Lights, LED Lighting
Worldwide PC shipments are expected to fall by 2.7% in 2014, an improvement from the previous forecast of negative 3.7%, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Although third-quarter results were a few points ahead of forecast ...
Tags: PC shipments, tablet
For its fiscal full-year 2014 (to end-August), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $14.5m, down 19% on $18m in fiscal 2013 (with LED chips falling 12%, LED components 23%, and lighting ...
Tags: Quarterly Revenue, Semileds, Electrical
SemiLEDs, a developer and manufacturer of LED chips and LED components, has announced its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2014, ended August 31, 2014. Revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 were ...
American multinational investment banking firm Goldman Sachs-led group of investors is set to invest KRW40bn ($36.1m) in South Korea's largest online and mobile food ordering service. The country's most popular food-delivery service is ...
Tags: Online Food Startup, Agriculture
Recently, Mr. Zhongyu Shi was driving a brand new Volvo Trucks FM460, one of the vehicles in the Anhui Liu An Logistics fleet, down the Outer Ring of Qipu Road in Shanghai at nearly 100 km/hour, with a total weight of 55 tons of the truck ...
Tags: Safe Transportation, Trucks Dynamic Steering System, Transportation
French yogurt maker Danone is contemplating sale of its 20% stake in Tokyo based dairy-drink producer Yakult Honsha, which if materialised, can raise cash for any future acquisitions by Danone. Bloomberg reported that Danone already had ...
Tags: Danone, Yakult, Agriculture
Earnings in the third fiscal quarter ended November 1, 2014 at US apparel retailer, Stein Mart slipped in to black from red in the year ago quarter. Third quarter of 2014 adjusted net income totalled $0.9 million or $0.02 per diluted ...
Tags: apparel retailer, Apparel
Mike Jeffries led apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has announced that the company’s Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend for holders of the company’s common shares in the amount of $0.20 per common share. The ...
Coca-Cola Bottling Company United has expanded its operations to Tuscaloosa area in the US state of Alabama, under a deal with Coca-Cola. The company produces, markets and distributes Coca-Cola, Coke Zero, Diet Coke, Sprite, Dr Pepper, ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, beverages, Agriculture